- Sturnus Cinclus. L.
- Merle d'Eau. F.
- Bach-Amsel. T.
- Merla Aquaiola. I.
- Cinclus Aquaticus. G. and Y.
- Water Ouzel. B.
Turdus Cinclus, Pennant; Common Dipper, Y.; Didapper, Doucker, Water Crow, Water Piot, B.; Cincle Plongeur, Temminck; Wasser Trostel, Swiss.
The scientific full arrangement, according to Yarrell, is thus:—
- 1. Order—Insessores.
- 2. Tribe—Dentirostres.
- 3. Genus—Merulidæ.
- 4. Species—Cinclus.
- 5. Individual—Aquaticus.
You will please observe that some of the scientific people call it a blackbird—some a thrush—some a starling—and the rest a Cincle, whatever that may be. It remains for them now only to show how the Cincle has been developed out of the Winkle, and the Winkle out of the Quangle-Wangle. You will note also that the Yorkshire and Durham mind is balanced between the two views of its being a crow or a magpie. I am content myself to be in harmony with France and Italy, in my 'Merula,' and with Germany in my Torrent-Ouzel. Their 'bach' (as in Staubbach, Giesbach, Reichenbach) being essentially a mountain waterfall; and their 'amsel,' as our Damsel, merely the Teutonic form of the Demoiselle or Domicilla—'House-Ouzel,' as it were, (said of a nice girl)—Domicilla again being, I think, merely the transposition of Ancilla Domini,—Behold, the handmaid of the Lord: (see frontispiece to third volume of 'Modern Painters') which, if young ladies in general were to embroider on their girdles—though their dresses, fitting at present 'as close as a glove' (see description of modern American ideal in 'A Fair Barbarian') do not usually require girdles either for their keys or their manners,—it would probably be thought irreverent by modern clergymen; but if the demoiselle were none the better for it, she could certainly be none the worse.
149. ALLEGRETTA NYMPHÆA. LILY-OUZEL.
Var. 1 (IX.A.)
ALLEGRETTA NYMPHÆA, MACULATA. SPOTTED ALLEGRET.
- Rallus Porzana. L.
- Poule d'Eau Maronette. F.
- Winkernell. T.
- rzana. I.
- Zapornia Porzana. G.
- Crex Porzana. Y.
- Ortygometra Porzana. Steph.
- Gallinula Maculata et Punctata. Brehmen.
- Spotted Crake. B.
The 'Winkernell' is I believe provincial (Alsace); so, Girardina, Milanese, and Girardine, Picard.—I can make nothing whatever of any of these names;—Porzana, Bolognese and Venetian, might perhaps mean Piggy-bird; and Ortygometra Porzana would then mean, in serious English, the 'Quail-sized Pig-bird.' I am sorry not to be able to do better as Interpreter for my scientific friends.